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[3071.34 --> 3071.88] are to give
[3071.88 --> 3072.38] him the name
[3072.38 --> 3073.34] Jesus because
[3073.34 --> 3074.54] he will save
[3074.54 --> 3075.22] his people
[3075.22 --> 3076.22] from their
[3076.22 --> 3076.62] sins.
[3077.08 --> 3077.50] Christmas
[3077.50 --> 3079.08] happens so
[3079.08 --> 3079.74] that God
[3079.74 --> 3080.54] can conquer
[3080.54 --> 3081.52] sin on the
[3081.52 --> 3082.20] cross by
[3082.20 --> 3083.00] giving us
[3083.00 --> 3083.82] an empty
[3083.82 --> 3084.30] tomb,
[3084.30 --> 3085.22] and anything
[3085.22 --> 3086.02] less just
[3086.02 --> 3086.40] isn't
[3086.40 --> 3086.90] Christmas.
[3087.40 --> 3087.66] Anything
[3087.66 --> 3088.54] less isn't
[3088.54 --> 3089.36] enough to
[3089.36 --> 3089.94] give you
[3089.94 --> 3091.64] meaning in
[3091.64 --> 3092.40] this life.
[3093.88 --> 3094.48] Meaning
[3094.48 --> 3095.40] comes out of
[3095.40 --> 3096.54] the story you
[3096.54 --> 3097.28] are rooting
[3097.28 --> 3098.22] yourself in
[3098.22 --> 3098.92] and for that
[3098.92 --> 3099.58] meaning to
[3099.58 --> 3100.34] last, for that
[3100.34 --> 3100.92] meaning to be
[3100.92 --> 3101.68] ultimate, really,
[3101.94 --> 3102.42] for that meaning
[3102.42 --> 3103.04] to be worth
[3103.04 --> 3104.04] anything at
[3104.04 --> 3105.32] all, the
[3105.32 --> 3106.20] story that
[3106.20 --> 3106.86] it's based
[3106.86 --> 3107.88] on needs to
[3107.88 --> 3109.02] be rooted
[3109.02 --> 3110.56] in history
[3110.56 --> 3111.64] and this
[3111.64 --> 3113.98] story, for
[3113.98 --> 3114.38] all of its
[3114.38 --> 3115.92] paradoxes and
[3115.92 --> 3117.16] mysteries, has
[3117.16 --> 3117.98] all the
[3117.98 --> 3119.36] hallmarks of
[3119.36 --> 3120.98] being true,
[3121.60 --> 3123.04] of actually
[3123.04 --> 3124.16] having
[3124.16 --> 3125.22] happened.
[3127.14 --> 3127.98] Matthew and
[3127.98 --> 3129.30] Luke tie
[3129.30 --> 3130.04] us to
[3130.04 --> 3131.38] history in
[3131.38 --> 3131.94] their gospel
[3131.94 --> 3132.62] accounts of
[3132.62 --> 3133.38] Jesus' birth by
[3133.38 --> 3133.78] giving us
[3133.78 --> 3134.72] genealogies,
[3135.08 --> 3135.88] which if you
[3135.88 --> 3136.40] were making
[3136.40 --> 3137.04] up these
[3137.04 --> 3137.98] stories, there
[3137.98 --> 3138.56] are certainly
[3138.56 --> 3139.32] unseemly
[3139.32 --> 3140.46] characters that
[3140.46 --> 3140.76] you would
[3140.76 --> 3142.12] omit, unless
[3142.12 --> 3143.38] the truth
[3143.38 --> 3144.14] of it matters
[3144.14 --> 3144.70] to you.
[3145.50 --> 3146.22] Because if the
[3146.22 --> 3146.62] truth of it
[3146.62 --> 3147.06] matters to
[3147.06 --> 3147.44] you, then
[3147.44 --> 3148.32] their inclusion
[3148.32 --> 3149.32] becomes an
[3149.32 --> 3149.92] argument for
[3149.92 --> 3150.48] the story's
[3150.48 --> 3150.80] truth.
[3152.10 --> 3152.68] The same can
[3152.68 --> 3153.32] be said about
[3153.32 --> 3154.14] the first
[3154.14 --> 3155.46] witnesses being
[3155.46 --> 3156.38] shepherds at
[3156.38 --> 3156.96] the birth of
[3156.96 --> 3157.50] Jesus and
[3157.50 --> 3158.16] women at the
[3158.16 --> 3158.58] resurrection.
[3158.88 --> 3159.42] If you were
[3159.42 --> 3160.02] making this
[3160.02 --> 3160.98] up, you
[3160.98 --> 3161.50] wouldn't have
[3161.50 --> 3162.12] used people